Fiat Roof Test Track

Video report of my visit to the old fiat lingotto factory in turin.

Fiat roof test track.

Fiat rooftop test track in turin 1920s 1920s vintage 26 november 2019 0. View of fiat lingotto factory with test track on the roof in 1928 spiral roadway to move cars up to a higher level of the former fiat lingotto factory in turin lingotto is a district of turin italy and the location of the lingotto building on the via nizza. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. Enter the lingotto building via any entrance and head to the 1st floor which is the 8 gallery shopping mall.

The design by young architect matté trucco was unusual in that it had five floors with raw materials going in at the ground floor and cars built on a line that went up through the building. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil. You may recognise this distinctive fiat test track on top of the building from a scene in the 1969 film the italian job with michael caine which was filmed in turin.

Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923. A lot of reviews complain that it is hard to find the fiat test track as featured in the italian job film as it is not sign posted so here are detailed directions. The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory. Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923.

Equipped with a test track of slightly over a mile long it was used for testing cars and inviting the high society of argentina to look at them. Located in the heart of the city its original owners fiat made clever use of the available real estate by building a high speed test track on the building s unusual banked rooftop where thousands of fiats underwent testing once they came out at the end of the assembly line.